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Mexico is examining options for using its $15 billion foreign currency reserves to reduce its $100 b

Isuzu Motors Joins Thai Engine VentureIsuzu Motors Ltd., a leading Japanese maker of small t

Most farm experts agree that trade barriers make it harder to sell crops abroad, but there is a disp

A senior U.S. official has questioned the effectiveness of the U.S. oil embargo against Libya and wh

W.B. Hinton Drilling Inc. took two of its eight rigs off the market this yearbecause there w

With the price of travel continuing to rise, particularly for the business traveler, the prospect of

Australian transportation giant TNT has fired the latest salvo in Europe's fast-escalating express f

Fourteen elms injected with genetically altered bacteria will be destroyed, say Montana State Univer

Japanese vessels will not enter the Persian Gulf for at least "one or two days" unless the Japanese

Negotiators in Ford Motor Co. contract talks, hoping to reach an agreement by Sept. 14, say they hav

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Not long ago, the waterfront neighborhood here had a reputation more foul than the sulfur clouds tha

The port of New Orleans and the city, both short of cash for much-needed development, agreed to a la

The Jamaican economy, lifted by expansion in key sectors, is growing faster than expected. T

Brazil's central bank announced proposed guidelines for converting $1 billion a year of foreign debt

New York has more helicopter flights than any city in the country but still lacks a maintenance and

A commuter pilot was sucked partway out of his plane and clung to a door for about 10 minutes but su

Barbara A. Curran, president of the state Board of Public Utilities, will resign her post later this

Australian Miners Consider ProtestSYDNEY, Australia - Australian coal miners continued meeti

A long-awaited cleanup is set to begin Friday at the 400-acre site of the abandoned Johns-Manville p

In the highly competitive and fast-paced world of chemicals and high technology it's a good idea to

AIR CARGO Australian transportation giant TNT launched a new intra-European door-to- door op

General Electric Co. has agreed to spend $20 million to clean up contaminated groundwater near its p

Mass. Auto Rate Controversy ContinuesMass. Atty. Gen. James Shannon has recommended a 4.4 pe

Lee International To Acquire PanavisionA British company announced an agreement to buy the m

Free trade has been compared to heaven. Everyone thinks it's a nice place to be, but no one wants to

A new general-purpose foreign trade zone has been approved for the Greater Detroit Foreign Trade Zon

September 3, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

After three years of drilling in northern Norway, the Soviet Union has made some interesting geologi

A planned oil platform for the Snorre offshore oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea is

Indonesian Output Down 9.8 percent in QuarterJAKARTA, Indonesia - Crude oil production in In

GE Information Services and ACS Network Systems Inc. have reached an agreement in which GE will prov

Ratification of an new longshoremen's contract for the West Coast is expected to be certified as off

A total of 353 ships have been reported attacked or damaged in the Persian Gulf since May 1981 as a

U.S. warships Thursday began escorting a convoy of reflagged Kuwaiti tankers through the Persian Gul

The nation's largest general retailers announced their August sales results Thursday, andthe numbers

ConAgra Inc. said it has reached a tentative agreement to settle a National Labor Relations Board ca

Important changes have taken place in the workplaces of many East European countries since the begin

Nestle Foods Corp. announced Thursday a recall of 600,000 bottles of cocktail sauce because of a def

Attorney Melvin Belli, representing some 20 families of victims of a plane crash, says he would pref